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National Park Service: Colorado National Monument
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Peaks, Plateaus & Canyons Association
Grand Junction Visitor & Convention Bureau
Site Design by
Steve Hight
Welcome
The Colorado National Monument, a unit of the national park system, is a spectacular area of twenty-thousand acres of steep-walled red rock canyons located in western Colorado, near the city of Grand Junction, on the eastern edge of the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado National Monument attracts approximately 500,000 visits per year.
The Colorado National Monument Association (CNMA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization* whose mission is to assist its agency partner, the National Park Service (NPS), with scientific, educational, historical, and interpretive activities at Colorado National Monument. Through operation of the bookstore, membership dues, and other fund-raising activities, the Association raises money to publish interpretive materials and to help fund NPS activities and projects in the monument, as well as outreach activities in the nearby communities.
The Colorado National Monument Association donates proceeds to a variety of projects in the monument. In 2006, the CNMA donated $54,017 in goods and services to the Colorado National Monument. The items funded include printing costs of a variety of brochures for visitors, a stipend for a teacher-
ranger to lead local school groups on hikes, the cost of hosting a resident volunteer to work in the Visitor Center four days a week during the busy summer season, honorariums for guest lecturers and program leaders, specialized lights for the campground to reduce light pollution, and personnel coverage for the information desk — as well as our Walks and Talks programs, a series of lectures and hikes aimed at the general public. This series has proven to be very popular; recent offerings have included star-gazing sessions conducted by the local astronomy club, bird and plant identification walks, and geology lectures and hikes conducted by prominent local geologists.
The Colorado National Monument Association was first incorporated in 1964 as the Colorado - Black Canyon Natural History Association. In 1977, that organization was split, and we acquired our current name, Colorado National Monument Association.
The CNMA consists of one full-time and three part-time staff members, a seven-person volunteer Board of Directors, and about 500 paid memberships, mostly from the local community.
* Click here to view the 2007 IRS form 990: Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. This is a 2.42 MB PDF file; for best results, we recommend you right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As." You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print this file.
CNMA
Colorado National Monument
Fruita, CO 81521
(970) 858-3617 ext. 307 or 308
E-Mail: COLM_CNMA@nps.gov
Except where noted, all contents © 2003-2008 Colorado National Monument Association.
All rights reserved.Funding for the design of this Web site
provided in part by the Fruita Tourism Advisory Council.
